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Show SUBMARINES M ELEVENS. SHIPS rrwo PASSENGER STEAMERS, ONE STEAM TANKER AND SIX SCHOONERS SUNK. German U-3oats Begin Attack off Jersey Coast which Brings the War Closer to the People of America. Now Ytjvk. The unrestricted submarine sub-marine warfare of the Jinn has been brought overseas, mid the U-boats liave taken their lirst lull of American sblpping on ibis side, of the Atlantic-. Beports received on Jmu? ;j Indicate that two crmst.wi.su passenger steamers, steam-ers, one steam tanker and six schooners schoon-ers have been sent to the bottom by the German sea-raiders. So loss of life 1ms been reported, however, us tin? raiders apparently are not oper ating on the "spm-los versenkt" basis. The vessels known or believed to have been sunk are: Carolina, plying between I'orto Kico and New York. Carried 220 passengers and 120 in crew. City of Columbus, plying between be-tween Savannah and New York. Yv'in-neconnie, Yv'in-neconnie, u steamship of 1SG0 tons, hound from Newport News to Providence, Provi-dence, with cargo of oil. Herbert L. I'ratt, oil tanker, sunk off Cape Hen-lopen. Hen-lopen. The following schooners are known to have been sunk : Edward II. Cole, In ballast, crew of eleven. Hattie Dunn, bound from Itockland to Charleston, In ballast, Isabella B. Wiley, In ballast, crew of eight. Jacob M. Haskell, bound from Boston to rvorroik, crew of eleven. Schooner Ednu, bound to Santiago, Cuba, with oil. Hatippauge. Texel. The crews of the Jacob M. Haskell, the Isabel! B. Wiley and the Haup-patige Haup-patige are still missing, as are all on board the steumers Caroline and City of Columbus. Naval officers at Norfolk, Va., say their reports Indicated five German submarines had been operating along the Atlantic coast, and that two had been sighted off the Virginia capes. Bear Admiral Fletcher, commandant of the Norfolk navy yard, said two U-boats had been sighted off the Virginia Vir-ginia tapes, and Bear Admiral Mc-j Mc-j Lean, commandant of the fifth naval : district, said, in addition to these, two ! others were reported off the coast of ' New Jersey and one off the coast of North Carolina. Neither officer had been advised of any engagement between be-tween American warships and the U-boats. Beports brought ashore by the survivors sur-vivors indicated that the Winneconnie and nearly all the schooners were sunk by the same U-boat, which had been lurking In the path of shipping off the New Jersey coast and the Delaware capes since late last month. The stories told by the skippers of the schooners Indicated that the commander of the stibmersibles was unusually humane for a German submarine officer. In no Instance, so far as known, was a 1 life-boat shelled and in all cases re- 1 liorted the crews were given oppor tunity to escape or were taken abonrd the submarine, where some of them were kept prisoners for eight days before they were turned adrift to be picked up by a passing vessel. Scores of United States warships were ranging the waters off the north Atlantic coast in search of the German" Ger-man" submarines which- made their long-expected attack on American shipping in home waters late Monday afternoon. While the details of naval operations were withheld, It Is known that destroyers, de-stroyers, fleets of submarine chasers and ether vessels are flashing their searchlights tonight over the waters along the coast and far out at sea from Maine to Florida. Hydroalrplanes and airplanes arose like flocks of huge birds from every naval station along the Atlantic coast when the warning was flashed to them and soon were scouting over the waters where it is believed submarines would be most likely to be lurking. Foreign For-eign aviators and American students, as well ns American flyers', eagerly volunteered for service. Hovering for two days over the sea where the American tanker AVilliam Rockefeller had been sunk by a German Ger-man submarine, a flotilla of destroyers and two seaplanes finally succeeded In capturing the U-boat, according to naval officers, survivors of the disaster, dis-aster, who landed Monday at an Atlantic At-lantic port. The sea for miles about the spot where the fatal blow struck the tanker was closely wached by destroyers and their accompanying seaplanes. At last the submarine, which had stayed below the surface so long that its nir tanks had become exhausted, rose to the surface and was netted. |